Matt Damon, Ben Affleck will support inclusion rider in future deals

On Monday, Ben Affleck and Matt Damon's production partner Fanshen Cox DiGiovanniannounced they - along with Jennifer Todd and Drew Vinton - would be adopting inclusion riders for all future production deals at Pearl Street company. According to media, Hemsworth's wife Elsa Pataky revealed that she and Luciana Damon have become so close after meeting through their husbands that they recently made a decision to get the same inking.

Inclusion riders came to the public attention after Frances McDormand closed her Oscar acceptance speech with the phrase, "two words - inclusion rider". " Two days later, Black Panther thirst trap Michael B. Jordan announced he'd be adding an inclusion rider to future projects at his production company, Outlier Society".

The Twitter post by Cox DiGiovanni praised Jordan's move. In the press room backstage at the 90th Academy Awards, McDormand explained an inclusion rider can be added to contracts so that at least 50 per cent of the cast and crew have to be diverse.

Kalpana Kotagal, one of the lawyers behind the inclusion rider, and Stacy Smith of the Annenberg Inclusion Initiative, said, "It's great to see Matt Damon, Ben Affleck and the Pearl Street Films team using their influence to create opportunities for people from underrepresented groups to enter the industry. The Inclusion Rider is an important tool for Hollywood, and other industries, to create workplaces that truly reflect our diverse world".

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